This is the man who was sued to oblivion by Nintendo for modding the Switch. He likely owes 30% of his income for the rest of his life to Nintendo. Did you know he's confined to a wheelchair and has kids?
Consider emulating your next Nintendo game on a Steam Deck and donating the purchase price to Gary. Nintendo will still get their cut.
I'm so excited for a free ecosystem again. But I'm wondering about this "android compatible" thing. I would like to be able to install any extension, marked compatible or not. Who decides whether or not an extension is compatible? The developer?
It's surprising that only 400 of the countless add ons on the repository will be available.
Gameboy games aren't typically developed on Gameboy (though NES games used to be!) and most consoles will run on linux via emulation or ("simulation" in the case of Playdate).
The steam deck has some unique features. And regardless, it's just about sparking creativity. But I am curious if anyone has gotten Aperture Desk Job (Steam Deck exclusive) to run on another device.
I don't think it's better or worse. Restrictive hardware targets are a perfectly valid game jam. I am amazed to see NES game jams, Gameboy jams, Playdate, etc.
A Steam Deck game jam would not be simply a Linux game jam. The form factor and capabilities of the device could have creative uses. The device includes unusual rear buttons (R4, R5, L4, L5), touch-sensitive joysticks, dual trackpads which are also clickable, etc. -- it's not really fair to say that targetting a game for this piece of hardware is simply targetting Linux, just because the device runs Linux.
This company changes their licensing terms every three years or so. This is the same deal that Game Maker Studio 1.4 was licensed under, then they brought out a subscription model for GMS 2 with no free tier. It's hard to take them at their word and have faith that there will really be a full-features free version "from now on."
Would have entered into the public domain in Canada had the government not signed a last-minute 20 year copyright extension act last year.